Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.

The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.

Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?

It is easy to sympathize at a distance,' said an old gentleman with a beard. 'I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.

The sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can't touch - like England 's grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it.

How can I know what I think till I see what I say?